Hook and eye carding device



H. A. FRANCIS.

HOOK AND EYE CARDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 18. 1920.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

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HOOK AND EYE CARDING- DEVICE.

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Specification of Letters Patent. 7 Patented Apr, 5, 1921 Application filed February 18, 1920. Serial No. 359,549.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, HENRY A. FRANCIS, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Niagara Falls, county of'Niagara, and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Hook and Eye Carding Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. 7

My invention relates generally to'a de vice for holding hooks andeyes and the card to which they are to be attached'while they are being stitched thereto.

The principal object of my invention has been to provide a device by which hooks and eyes may be rapidly and accurately carded. My device is so constructed and arranged that with ordinary intelligence, it

shall be impossible to improperly stitch the hooks and eyes on the card. The arrange ment and shape of the slots are such that the successive insertions of the needle are accurately indicated by the shape of the slots.

The above objects have been accomplished by the device shown in-the accompanying drawings, of which:

Figure 1- is a plan view of the device open and ready to receive the hooks and eyes.

Fig. 2 isa fragmentary, sectional view of the device in its closed position with hooks andeyes in place, and is taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary, plan view of the device when closed, showing the arrangement of slots.

Fig. 4: is a fragmentary, sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 1 when the device is closed.

My device comprises a base 5 and a-cover 6 hinged thereto and arranged to be held in position on top of the base 5 by means of a retaining clasp 7 or other suitable fastening means. 7

The base 5 is provided with a series of recesses 8, there being preferably two rows of recesses, as it is customary to fasten two rows of hooks and eyes to each card. Before placing the hooks and loop eyes into the recesses 8, each pair is preferably assembled as indicated by the pair shown in Fig. 1, and

the'recesses are so shaped as to conform to the outer boundary of the assembled hook and loop eye. As it is customary many times tov furnish what is known asan invisible eye, there is preferably an extension recess 9 provided at one end of eachoftherecesses 8, (the end which engages the loop eye), in which one end of the. so-called-invisible eye is disposed. The'extension re-f cess is made to fit theouter' conformation of the engaging end ofthe invisible eye, so] as to hold it in position. The recesses are,

of course, formed of the proper depth and the hooks and eyes are assembled in the recesses with their bottom faces in an upward position, thus bringing the bottoms of the hooks. and the eyes substantially flush with.

the upper face of the base 5, so thatthey Wlll be 1n registering position with the card when it is placed upon the face of the base,

-- My device is designed primarily. to fa-.

'cilitate the. fastening .ofhooks and eyes to cards by hand stitching, and this is preferably accomplished by an alternately reversed up and down movement of the needle as indicated by theIarrowsin'Fig. 4. In i order to make this possible, while the card and hooks and. eyes are being held [within the device, and at the same time to provide a guideforthe successive insertions of the needle, I provide a plurality of longitudinal slots 10 arranged through the base 5 at each end of the recesses 8. ,7 These slots lieopposite the eyelets of each hook; and at tached loop, eye, as clearlyshown in Fig. 1. Due to-the arrangement .of-the two rows of hooks and eyes,-there are four rows of slots 10 provided in the base 5. The cover dis also provided with a plurality of slots 11,

also arranged in four rows, as shown. The

slots 11 in the cover are arranged in staggered relation tothe slots 10 of the baseysol that'the ends of the slots 11 overlap the ends of the slots 10, thereby providing straight openings for the needle, as shown in Figs,-

3 and 4E. The cover. 6 is also'i provided with a laterally arranged slot 12,. connecting the first and second rows of horizontally arranged slots 11; with a laterally arranged slot 18 connecting the second and third rows of slots 11; and also with a slot 14 connecting the third and fourthrows of. slots 11. An aperture 15 is also provided at the righthand end of the first .row of slots 11, which forms the starting point for the stitching, A slot16, opening into the edge-of the cover 6,is arranged at. the right-handend of the fourth row of slots, whereby, when the needle and thread are passedthrough the} card for the last time, the device may be opened and the cardwith the. attached hooks and p eyes removed without having to first cut the thread, thus making it possible to properly fasten the end of the thread to the card before cutting it off. The slots arranged in the cover and base are preferably tapered,

as shown, and the narrower end of one. slot.

is opposite the wider end of the opposite slot the needle being first passed through the narrower end of one slot and then out through'the wider end of the opposite slot. The slot is made wider at the end from which the needle is withdrawn so that it shall not be necessary to pass the needle through the device in an exactly perpendicular position.

W hen the device is to be used, the hooks 17 and loop eyes 18 of each pair of hooks and eyes are first assembled and are then placed up-side-down within the recesses 8. An invisible eye 19 is then placed-over each loop eye with one of its ends engaging the extension recess 9. After the recesses in the device have been completely filled, a card 20 is placed face down upon 'the base o and the cover 6 is brought over on 'top of the card and held down in position upon" the base 5 by means of the clasp 7. A needle, having a piece of thread long enough wider end of the first slot 11 in the cover after which it will be passed down through the narrower endzof the same slot and out the wider end of the second slot in the base. The path of the needle isclearly shown in Fig. 4. It will be seen that, as the needle is reversed and passed a second time through each slot, the loop thus formed in the thread will be drawn through the cover and base'and alternately against the bottom of the card and the tops of the hooks and eyes. The needle and thread are alternately passed in succession through the slots 10 and 11 of the base 5 and cover 6, re-

' spectively, until the thread has reached'the end slot'of the first row. It will then be passed through the narrower end of the last slot 11 in the cover and when it is brought up through the last slot 10 of the same row in the base, it will be brought out through the' wider end of the lateralslot 12 of the cover. It is then passed down through the narrower end of this lateral slot and the next row is then stitched in the same man ner as above described. When the end of this row has been reached, the thread is brought across to the third row through the lateral slot 18 as above described. When the stitching has reached the end of the third row it is brought to the fourth and last row across and through the slot 14:. l/Vhen the last stitch has been taken in the fourth row, the needle and thread will be brought out through the inner end of. the slot 16, whereupon the stitching operation will be completed. The card may be now taken from the device'by opening the cover,

and the thread may then be suitably fastened. It will be understood that all the rows of hooks and eyes in my device are stitched to the card" by one continuous length of thread.

Nhile I have shown and described my exact embodiment herein shown and described, the form described being merely a preferred embodiment thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A hook and eye carding device charac-. terized byhaving a base and a hinged cover, I

the base being formed with a series of re-' cesses for-holding hooks and eyes, the base' being also formed with a series of slots arranged in a straight line longitudinally across the same, and the cover being formed with a'series of slots arranged in a straight line longitudinally across the same,-the slots of the base and the cover being arranged in staggered, lapped relation to each other,

2. A hook and eye carding device characterized by having a base and a hinged cover, the base being formed with a pluralityof series of recesses for holding hooks andeyes, I the base being also formed with a plurality of series of longitudinalslots and the cover being formed with a plurality ofseries of the longitudinal slots in lapped relation to slots of the base.

3. A hook and eye carding device characterized by having a base and a hinged cover, 1

the base being formed with a plurality of series of recesses for holding hooks and eyes,

the base being also formed with a plurality.

of series of longitudinal slots, the cover be.- 7

ing formed with a plurality of series of longitudinal slots in lapped relation to the slots of the base, and the cover being-also formed with lateral slots connecting each adjacentseries of longitudinal slots.

4:. A hook and eye cardingdevicecharacterized by having a base and a hinged cover, the base being formed with a seriesiof recesses forholding hooks and eyes, the base being also formed with a series of longitudinal tapered slots, the cover being formed with a series of longitudinal ta pered slots in lapped relation to the slots of the base.

5. A hook and eye carding device characterized by having a base and a hinged cover, the base being formed with a series of recesses for holding hooks and eyes, and also with a series of extension recesses for holding invisible eyes, the base being also provided with a series of slots arranged in a straight line longitudinally across the same, and the cover being formed with a series of slots arranged in a straight line longitudinally across the same, the slots of the base and the cover being arranged in staggered, lapped relation to each other.

6. A hook and eye carding device characterized by having a base and a hinged cover, the base being formed with a series of recesses for holding hooks and eyes, the base being also formed with a series of longitudinal slots, the cover being formed with a series of longitudinal slots in lapped relation to the slots, of the base, and the cover being formed with an aperture adjacent the first slot of the series.

7. A hook and eye carding device characbeing also formed with a series of longitudinal slots, the cover being formed withterized by having a base and a hinged cover, the base being formed-with a. series of recesses for holding hooks and eyes, the base a series of longitudinal slots in lapped relation to the slots of the base, and the, cover being formed with an opening into its edge adjacent the last slot of the series.

8. A hook and eye carding device characterized by having a base and a hinged cover, the base being formed with a plurality of series of recesses for holding hooks and eyes, the base being also formed with a plurality of series of longitudinal slots, the cover being formed with a plurality of series of longitudinal slots in lapped relation to the slots of the base, the cover being also formed with lateral slots connecting each adjacent series of longitudinal slots, withan aperture adjacent the first slot of the series and also with an opening into its edge adj acent the last slot of the series.

'In testimony whereof, I have hereunto 50 signed my name. o

' HENRY A. FRANCIS. I 

